Just tell the story and go on to the next one. All of us are full of stories the world might want to hear.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSHow long does it have to go on? This punishment? Haven’t I done time enough, haven’t I served my term? can’t I apply for a-pardon?
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Guessing isn’t knowing.
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Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
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Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one’s own character to himself.
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Men don’t want anything they get too easy. But on the other hand, men lose interest quickly.
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I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person.
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I don’t believe in “original sin.” I don’t believe in “guilt.” I don’t believe in villains or heroes – only right or wrong ways that individuals have taken, not by choice but by necessity or by certain still-uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances, and their antecedents.
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I can’t stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.
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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
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You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.
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That time is short and it doesn’t return again. It is slipping away while I write this and while you read it, and the monosyllable of the clock is Loss, loss, loss, unless you devote your heart to its opposition.
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All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
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It is planned speeches that contain lies or dissimulations, not what you blurt out so spontaneously in one instant.
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Don’t you think there is always something unspoken between two people?
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I am more faithful than I intended to be!
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I can’t expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.
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